Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-02

merchant of that city, endorsing it; that
Senator Hampton went with him to the
President to urge the appointment; that
Senator Butler had written letter endors-
ing it; that he, Dibble, had sounded
Charleston on the subject before he made
the recommendation, and that he had seen
nor heard nothing to induce him to think
the appointment was not the best one that
could have been made under the circum.
stances.
1t is said to-day that the announcement OF
The names of the commissioners TO examine
the affairs of the Pacific roads has been
postponed in consequence Of the opposition
that has been manifested 10 the appoint
ment of one of those who had been selected,
Mr.. Littier, republican, from Illinois.
General Malone has not yet returned 10
the city, but is expected back next week.
Though he has no more right to the use OF
room at the Capitol than any other Amer
can citizen, he not only retains possession OF
the room of the Senate committee on build
ings and grounds. but has several of the
Senate's employees engaged there in assist
ing him in the preparation ofcampalgn doc-
uments he intends to use IN Virginia next
fall.
REPORTS reach here from Virginia to the
effect that General Malone has lost another
one of his strongest supporters there, MIR.
James Frazier, the Malone leader in the
legislature of his State, who said the only
qualifications his party required of o candi-
date for udgeship were that he should be
q readjuster and once in his life have open
ed law book.
While many congressman are rich, many
are poor, some of them too poor to be in
Congress, for congressman is called
upon to spend good deal of money, and
many man who hasn't the money to main.
tain himself as his colleagues do will yield
to temptations that he would scorn if III
better circumstances and such men are
Dot the safest Legislators when daily sur.
rounded by designing lobbyists with mil
lions of money at their disposal. To show
that some OF the representatives are poor,
it is stated that one Of them, who died
at home during the last session, was 80 i'm.
pecunious that collection had to be taken
up among his friends TO pay his funeral ex.
penses.
At last nights session of the Virginia
democratic association OF this city, Judge
Goolrickt who spoke at previous meeting
of the association, advising the democratic
party of his State to make their next State
campaign on the distinctly understood idea
that Mr.. Barbour must be the next U. S.
senator from Virginia, said that though
the newspapers of his State opposed max.
ing the campaign on that idea he had re.
ceiyed letters from many OF The wisest and
most influential democrats in the State en-
dorsing it. and that he was as firmly
convinced of its wisdom now as he ever
was An applicant for membership, an
Office holder, was denied, for the reason
that whereas he now says be is demo
crat, he was appointed to Office by repub
lcan and voted for Blaine at the last
election.
Senator Sherman arrived here last night.
When asked if it was true that the negroes
in the South are going over to the demo
cratic party in any considerable number, he
replied that it was not, and aaid Southern
colored man is republican instinctively,
and that the more he is educated the strong
or becomes his adherence to the republican
party. Which shows that tho Senator
knows what he ia talking about, and that
oil the gable about breaking up the color
line in the South means dividing the white
vote there, while the colored vote will re-
main solld.
A Tammauy Hall democrat here to-day
says it is really true that Secretary Whit
ney has the Presidential bee in his bonnet,
and, what's more, that If the President can't
be renominated, he will throw his influence
for Mr.. Whitney. He says that Mr.. Whit
uey has given ffty-seven appointments to
Tammany democrats, and that when lead
ing Tammany democrats and Mr.. Grady
come here, no attention he can pay them
seems to him too great.
1t is reported to day that ex-representa-
I uon nP Tnmo will no
pointed commissioner of patents, vice Mont
geometry, appointed U. S. Judge
Three removals among the Senators
clerkships will take place next week. The
unfortunates are the appointees Of OK Sena-
tors Mcmillan, Van WICK and Mitchell.
When Senators lose their seats, their ap
pointees, as rule, lose theirs also. Gen.
Mahone's case is an exception.
The appointment of Mr.. Montgomery, of
Michigan, to the vacant q. S. judgship in this
CITY, is another cause of complaint
the District democrats have against the
President. They say that though they were
not united upon any one of the District ap
piicants, they would have been satisfied with
any one Of them, and that the appointment
of a man from Michigan implies That in the
opinion of the President suitable man
could not be found among the District demo.
Gratis. They also say that if man outside
the District had to be selected, Judge Keith,
of Virginia, should have been that man.
The physicians of Trotter, the colored re.
corder of deeds for this city, who has been
i'll with pneumonia, say oday that he is now
entirely GU. of danger. It's current ru-
NOR that he commenced to recover rapidly
from the time he received a beautiful bou-
quet, to which was attached card contain
ing the compliments of Mrs. Col. Lamont,
the wife of the Presidents private secre-
tary.
The interstate commerce commissioners
will this afternoon hear arguments in the
first case submitted to them-one from
Alabama.
Senator Pugh, of Alabama, in short talk with
the GAzETTE's correspondent to day, said the
democrats of his State were revenue tariff men,
and that the protectionists there were the North
ern capitalists and the workmen they had brought
with them from the North, who being republicans
are therefore protectiorists.
The government printing Office is all astir again |
with rumors aud fears of wholesale removals. |
Among the recent removals, it is said, are many
democrats. The work there, it is reported, is |